At one time, Pro Wrestling NOAH was the top promotion in Japan. However, since founder Mitsuharu Misawa died in 2009, the company has spent more than a decade struggling to find its identity in a shifting pro wrestling landscape. In 2019, NOAH revamped much of its product to mirror the market-leader New Japan Pro Wrestling…
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At Destination 2021 this Friday, and for the first time since 2017, Pro Wrestling NOAH will return to the renowned Nippon Budokan Hall. Budokan is not only a famous Japanese arena; it’s also a venue of significance in NOAH’s lore. In March 2013, at Final Burning, in his final match, the legendary Kenta Kobashi teamed…
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This is the last of our 2020 awards. On Monday, we kicked off our awards with the 2020 Fight Game Media Boxing Awards. On Tuesday, we posted our 2020 Fight Game Media MMA Awards. Our pro wrestling awards are dedicated to Jon Huber, aka Brodie Lee. The Panel Duan Greally: Longtime Fight Game Media contributor…
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For more than a decade, New Japan Pro Wrestling has been the number one promotion in its native country. NJPW has been on an extraordinary creative and financial run. When Tokyo Sports announced its year-end awards, New Japan dominated most of the accolades. IWGP World & Intercontinental Champion Tetsuya Naito named Most Valuable Player for…
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One of Pro Wrestling NOAH’s most storied rivalries exploded on Sunday at Pro Wrestling NOAH’s year-end The Best: The Final Chronicle. In the main event, Go Shiozaki defended his GHC World Heavyweight Championship against former champion and current GHC Tag Team co-champion, Takashi Sugiura. Just two weeks ago, Shiozaki defended the championship in a match…
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Just two weeks after wrapping its successful 20th Anniversary show, The Chronicle Vol. 4, Pro Wrestling NOAH returns to the FITE channel this Saturday with NOAH The Best: Final Chronicle. Two huge title defenses will headline, as Sugiura-gun, the current GHC Tag Team Champions, separately challenge for the company’s top two singles titles. In the…
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One of pro wrestling’s best stories in all of 2020 concluded Pro Wrestling NOAH’s 20th anniversary show, The Chronicle Vol. 4. Former best friends and tag team partners, Katsuhiko Nakajima and Go Shiozaki battled for the Global Honored Crown (GHC) World Heavyweight Championship Saturday in Yokohoma’s Budokan Hall. As AXIZ, Shiozaki, and Nakajima were a…
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In 2000, All Japan Pro Wrestling’s top star, Mitsuharu Misawa, left the company with most of the AJPW crew to form Pro Wrestling NOAH. Misawa appropriately named his company after the Biblical champion who saved the world after the Great Flood. After a tumultuous 2019, NOAH has found not only a new owner but a…
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